Lichess Lila Inline View inlineView.ts innerHTML Comment.Author.External cross site scripting
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Summary
A vulnerability was found in Lichess Lila. It has been rated as problematic. This affects the function innerHTML of the file ui/analyse/src/treeView/inlineView.ts of the component Inline View. This manipulation of the argument Comment.Author.External causes cross site scripting.
This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-103974. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available.
Applying a patch is the recommended action to fix this issue.
Details
A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Lichess Lila (version unknown). Affected by this vulnerability is the function innerHTML of the file ui/analyse/src/treeView/inlineView.ts of the component Inline View. The manipulation of the argument Comment.Author.External with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. The summary by CVE is:
lichess.org is the forever free, adless and open source chess server. Prior to commit c54596c9e1569d378fe20f80d4c790c6fdee54c4, a user who can add a chapter to a study can place attacker-controlled text in the PGN Annotator tag, which becomes Comment.Author.External and is returned verbatim by authorText. When a study node has at least two comments, ui/analyse/src/treeView/inlineView.ts interpolates that author string into HTML passed to the innerHTML hook without escaping it. Opening the affected study can therefore render stored attacker-controlled HTML and CSS for other viewers, including navigation to an attacker-controlled site, content spoofing, and CSS-based data exposure, although the site's content security policy blocks injected JavaScript. This vulnerability is fixed by commit c54596c9e1569d378fe20f80d4c790c6fdee54c4.
The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-103974 since 10/01/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.
Applying the patch c54596c9e1569d378fe20f80d4c790c6fdee54c4 is able to eliminate this problem.
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CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
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Exploiting
Class: Cross site scriptingCWE: CWE-79 / CWE-94 / CWE-74
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Patch: c54596c9e1569d378fe20f80d4c790c6fdee54c4
Timeline
10/01/2026 CVE reserved10/14/2026 Advisory disclosed
10/14/2026 VulDB entry created
10/14/2026 VulDB entry last update
Sources
Advisory: github.comStatus: Confirmed
CVE: CVE-2026-103974 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2026-103974
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-420301
Entry
Created: 10/14/2026 20:46Changes: 10/14/2026 20:46 (66)
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Cache ID: 216::103
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